Franz Bernhard Heinrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Gaudy (19 April 1800

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– 5 February 1840 Berlin) was a German poet and novelist. His family came from

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. He got his education first in the Collège Français in Berlin, then in Schulpforta. In 1818 he entered the Prussian army, but applied for his discharge in 1833 to pursue the life of a free writer. In 1833 and 1835 he traveled to

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. In his poems, he first imitated

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Works

*''Erato'' (1829) *''Kaiserlieder'' (1835) *''Aus dem Tagebuch eines wandernden Schneidergesellen'' (1836)

External links

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Franz Freiherr von Gaudy: Zum 220. Geburtstag
( Kleist Museum, in ''German'') 1800 births 1840 deaths 19th-century German poets German-language poets Französisches Gymnasium Berlin alumni German male poets 19th-century German male writers {{Germany-poet-stub